Senior Counsel, Product Regulated Verticals

Company Overview Docusign brings agreements to life. Over 1.5 million customers and more than a billion people in over 180 countries use Docusign solutions to accelerate the process of doing business and simplify people’s lives. With intelligent agreement management, Docusign unleashes business-critical data that is trapped inside of documents. Until now, these were disconnected from business systems of record, costing businesses time, money, and opportunity. Using Docusign’s Intelligent Agreement Management platform, companies can create, commit, and manage agreements with solutions created by the #1 company in e-signature and contract lifecycle management (CLM).

We are looking for an experienced product lawyer to own the legal and regulatory thesis for Docusign's regulated verticals, and to be the subject matter expert the rest of Product, Engineering, and Product legal draws on when a vertical regulation is the deciding issue on a launch. Real Estate, Health and Life Sciences, and Financial Services are the places where compliance is not a layer applied to a finished product. It is the reason a regulated customer can use Intelligent Agreement Management for records they have to defend to a regulator. That means someone has to decide, before the roadmap is set, what a regulator will accept as a defensible agreement record in each of these markets, and turn that into requirements engineering can build against. You will be that person. You will also be the depth the rest of the product counsel team relies on: they own their launches, you own the vertical regulatory expertise that makes their calls right. This is an individual contributor role with real ownership and real influence over what gets built. This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the Senior Director & Deputy General Counsel - Product Engineering, IP and Partner.

Own the verticals thesis and requirements Define what regulatory defensibility means for the agreement record in Real Estate, Health and Life Sciences, and Financial Services, and translate it into product and engineering requirements at design and roadmap stage rather than launch review, including electronic signature validity, record keeping and retention, in-product disclosures, and the integrity and provenance of the record itself Be the subject matter expert for Product legal and own the vertical regulatory depth behind them Build the reusable positions, answer library, and interpretation guidance on the questions that recur (21 CFR Part 11, HIPAA, GLBA, SEC and FINRA recordkeeping, PCI DSS, NACHA), partner directly on the launches where a vertical regulation drives the outcome, and keep the team current as those regimes move Keep commitments and capability aligned and assess whether the compliance commitments Docusign makes are actually deliverable in the product as built, define compensating controls where they are not, and maintain the inventory of commitments measured against real capability Partner with commercial legal, privacy, and Al governance on commitments raised in customer deals, and run a light intake so routine compliance questions route themselves rather than queueing behind you Job Designation Remote: Employee is not required to be in or near an office frequently and works from a designated remote work location for the majority of the time. Positions at Docusign are assigned a job designation of either In Office, Hybrid or Remote and are specific to the role/job. Preferred job designations are not guaranteed when changing positions within Docusign. Docusign reserves the right to change a position's job designation depending on business needs and as permitted by local law. What you bring Basic Law degree from an accredited law school Admitted to practice and in good standing in at least one US jurisdiction 8+ years of law firm and/or in-house experience Experience advising product and engineering teams directly in a regulated